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Papyrus 992
- Record Id:
- 040-003695803
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100107779518.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469670.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 992
- Title:
- Agreement for Arbitration (P.Lond. III 992, Chrest.Mitt. 365, TM 22762)
- Scope & Content:
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Agreement for arbitration (compromissum) concerning a dispute between Flavius Silvanus, soldier of the unit of the Mauri, and his brothers, on the one hand, and their sister Archontia and her husband, another soldier from the same unit, on the other. The parties agree to submit to the rulings of Cardemeus and Zenodotus. With subscriptions at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003695803 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 992 : Agreement for Arbitration (P.Lond. III 992, Chrest.Mitt. 365, TM 22762) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1866]/040-003695803
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Square-shaped papyrus sheet, darker in a few places; lacking parts of the left-hand portion and with some surface damage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 25 lines; one line is lost between the surviving lines 24 and 25; the left margin is imperfect, the other margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469670.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0507
- End Date:
- 0507
- Date Range:
- June-July 507
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 304 x 315 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 360 x 370 mm.
Script: Proficient, rapid cursive hand of small size, somewhat compressed, with a slight slant to the right; two cursive hands for the subscriptions in lines 23-24.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 885-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 365
FIRA III 182
P.Lond. III 992
Sel.Pap. I 61 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 441.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 253-254, no. 992.
A. Berger, Die Strafklauseln in den Papyrusurkunden. Ein Beitrag zum gräko-ägyptischen Obligationenrecht (Leipzig–Berlin: B. G. Teubner 1911), pp. 212-213.
F. Hohmann, Zur Chronologie der Papyrusurkunden (Römische Kaiserzeit) (Berlin: F. Siemenrot 1911), pp. 25-26.
J. Maspero, Organisation Militaire de l'Égypte Byzantine (Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion 1912), p. 55.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), no. 365.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 295.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 182-185, no. 61.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 84.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 95.
R. Taubenschlag, Opera minora II (Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawn Naukowe-La Haye; Paris: Mouton & Co 1959), p. 815.
S. Riccobono et al. (eds.), Fontes iuris romani antejustiniani. pars tertia: negotia, edidit Vincentius Arangio – Ruiz (Firenze: Barbèra 1968), pp. 572-574, no. 182.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 63.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘An Important Family in VIth Century Hermupolis’, Hellenika 40 (1989), pp. 381-383.
A. Jördens, Vertragliche Regelungen von Arbeiten im späten griechischsprachigen Ägypten (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag 1990), p. 100.
J. Beaucamp, Le Statut de la Femme à Byzance. II. Les Pratiques Sociales (Paris: De Boccard 1992), p. 392.
J. G. Keenan, ‘Soldier and Civilian in Byzantine Hermopolis’, in A. Bülow-Jakobsen (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrology. Copenhagen, 23-29 August 1992 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 1994), pp. 444-451 (pp. 449-450).
J.-U. Krause, Witwen und Waisen im Römischen Reich II (Stuttgart: F. Steiner 1994), p. 249.
H. Melaerts, L. Mooren, Le rôle et le statut de la femme en Égypte hellénistique, romaine et byzantine: actes du colloque international, Bruxelles-Leuven 27-29 novembre 1997 (Leuven: Peeters 2002), p. 34.
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2004), p. 282.
Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, Bd. XIX, Griechische Texte XVIII (Wien: Verlag Brüder Hollinek 2004), no. 50, 4-5 n.
J. Urbanik, ‘Compromesso o processo? Alternativa risoluzione dei conflitti e tutela dei diritti nella prassi della tarda antichità’, Symposion 2005: Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Salerno, 14.-18. September 2005) = Comunicazioni sul diritto greco ed ellenistico (Salerno, 14-18 settembre 2005) (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2007), pp. 377-400 (p. 391).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)